Green Sun
The new novel from 'the world's best crime writer'
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- 3,99 €
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'The world's best crime writer' Metro
'The best of what crime fiction can do' Michael Connelly
'Fearsomely authentic and moving' Daily Mail
'Tells the unvarnished truth about what it is to be a cop' James Patterson
A 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist
The acclaimed author of Night Dogs and Sympathy for the Devil returns with a blistering new novel - his first in over 20 years.
Hanson thought he had witnessed the worst of humanity after a tour of duty in Vietnam and a stint as a cop in Oregon. Then he moves to Oakland, California to join the under-funded, understaffed police department.
Unlike the rest of the white officers, Hanson takes seriously his duty to serve and protect the black community of East Oakland.
He will encounter prejudice and hate on both sides of the line... and struggle to keep true to himself against powerful opposition and personal danger.
Green Sun is a raw, unflinching novel about America's divided cities and one man's divided soul.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
After several years teaching English literature in Idaho, Hanson, the hero of Anderson's deeply moving novel set in 1983, has returned to police work as a beat cop in the economically devastated neighborhoods of East Oakland, Calif. A former Special Forces sergeant in Vietnam, Hanson expected to die in the war. Now, more than a decade later, he misses the simple purity of conflict. Hanson doesn't care if he lives or dies, and that freedom has brought him closer to his underserved community. Immediately at odds with the department's policy of brute containment, he sees himself as more of an "armed social worker." Things get complicated when Hanson's path crosses that of Felix Maxwell, the local drug lord who has become a kind of urban folk hero. In a series of vivid and often hallucinatory episodes, Anderson (Night Dogs) shows Hanson, aided by an 11-year-old neighborhood boy named Weegee, navigating the mean streets of Oakland, dealing with situations forcefully but always with humanity. Anderson's model of community policing couldn't be more timely.
